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With this charming boor’s consent, may I dance the next rigadoon with you Madame?

With this charming boor’s consent, may I dance the next rigadoon with you Madame?
(Avec l'Agrement de cet Agreable Muf'e)
 (1841)
from the Les débardeurs (The dock workers) series, first published in Le Charivari, 1840-43

Medium
hand-coloured lithograph
Measurements
19.7 × 15.8 cm (image) 34.7 × 25.8 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Armelhault and Bocher 536 LIX. II
Printing/Publishing
printed by Aubert & Cie, Paris
Inscription
printed in ink (in image) l.l.: 362 (reversed)
printed in ink u.c.: LES DEBARDEURS
printed in ink u.r.: 59
printed in ink l.l.: Chez Aubert gal. Véro-Dodat
printed in ink l.c.: Par Gavarni
printed in ink l.r.: Imp. d'Aubert & Cie (“ under ie)
printed in ink l.l.: Avec l'agrément de cet agréable muf'e là, pourraît-on, Madame, pincer / avec toi le prochain rigodon?
printed in ink l.c.l.: Se vend chez Bauger & Cie, Editeurs des Dessins de la CARICATURE du FIGARO et du CHARIVARI, R. du Croissant 16.
Accession Number
1584-4
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased, 1946
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display